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My article for the TES: How to… Use technology to support assessment.

EdTech4Beginners

I recently wrote an article for the Times Educational Supplement (TES). It was about ways tech tools can support assessment in the classroom. Read the full article by clicking here. Have you got any other tech tools which help when assessing pupils? Leave a comment below. Tagged: apps , assessment , edtech , education , tech , technology.

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Critical Questions

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

I was recently at my first ISTE Conference , and more than any session that I attended, what I really loved was connecting face-to-face with amazing educators that I only ever get to connect with online. These are amazing people! Some I’ve met once or twice before, but others, like Kathleen McClaskey , Barbara Bray and Shelly Sanchez Terrell , were people I’ve known for years, but have never been in the same city at the same time with, much less the same room!

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Repairing Student and Co-Worker Relationships

MiddleWeb

Educators are going to make mistakes, write Todd Whitaker and teacher-daughters Madeline and Katherine. Whether it's a misstep with students, friction with a colleague, or a faux pas with admin, quickly admitting faults is part of being a classroom professional.

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How to Connect Data to Effect Meaningful Change

Edsurge

The Pitfalls of End-of-Level Testing High stakes end-of-level testing is nigh-ubiquitous in American society. Its roots can be traced back to the 1990s when Congress reauthorized Johnson’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Improving America’s Schools Act (IASA) required the development or adoption of state assessments and tied them to Title I funds.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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The Microsoft Innovative Educator Program

My Paperless Classroom

In this episode, we welcome 3 amazing Microsoft Innovative Educator's onto the program to discuss the MIE Forum and ISTE 2016. The TechEducator Podcast is a weekly round table discussion about current topics in educational technology. For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com. The post Learning how you can become a Microsoft Innovative Educator | #MIEEXPERT @Microsoft_EDU appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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70+ Educational iPad Apps Curated by Teachers for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

July 3, 2016 For those of you who have missed the iPad apps chart we published a few months ago, you may want to bookmark and keep it handy for rainy days. The chart includes some of the best.read more.

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Some Excellent Rubric Generators for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

July 3, 2016 A few days ago we published here in EdTech and mLearning a collection of some interesting web tools teachers can use to create educational rubrics. Today, we are adding this wonderful.read more.

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Updated: Epic Rubric on Google Sheets

Teacher Tech

Use Spreadsheets for Rubrics When it comes to calculating things, don’t do it by hand. I was standing in 110˚ heat yesterday as the ladies at the fireworks stand attempted 5 times to calculate my bill. I’m still not confident they calculated it correctly. Even when using a calculator it is too easy to accidentally […]. The post Updated: Epic Rubric on Google Sheets appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Use PBL to Role-Play in the Real World

MiddleWeb

We always hear about the “real world” vs. the world in school. Project Based Learning helps to break down that barrier and better merges the two. It’s also undeniably engaging and lures kids into rigorous learning, as in Heather Wolpert-Gawron's "Invention Unit.".

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#EdTech and Teaching Tweet Wrap, w/e 07-02-16

EmergingEdTech

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the Wrap … several posts written. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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A Kid-Friendly Way to Teach Animation

techlearning

Easy-to-learn tool empowers beginning animators.

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Asking the Right Questions About Mobile Learning

A Principal's Reflections

As of late I have been engaged in a great amount of work either assisting districts and schools as they begin to implement mobile learning ( 1:1, BYOD ) or helping them get their programs on track. Over six and a half years ago I helped successfully implement a Bring Your Own Device initiative in my school. Not only were we the first to do it in my state, but there weren't many great examples to pull from at the time.

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“Deficit Comparisons” To “Abundance Introspection”

The Principal of Change

There is so much “grey” here but I am trying to write to understand my own learning, so hopefully this is not too disjointed. Ken Shelton and I have become good friends over the years, but have only had a few interactions. Sometimes you just meet people that you feel you have known forever, and your relationship just clicks. Thats my connection with Ken.

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3 Easy Web Accessibility Guidelines

The Innovative Educator

If you're an innovative educator, chances are you publish work on the web. If you publish work on the web, chances are you want others to read that work. If you want others to read that work, then you need to make it accessible. While that "sounds" good, it may "seem" hard. There are sites you can refer to like Web Aim and you can look at these 5 infographics for details.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t